Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. And these are not just super-precocious kids digging into self-directed study—what Evans calls “free agent learning.”

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. and even like making their own to use as study tools. Gimkit – this is a newer game that was created by a high school student!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Young people need to start exploring career possibilities, based on their strengths and interests, starting in middle school–and theyre beginning to. High school internships will become more prevalent. There is no substitute for real world learning starting in high school. Starting early.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data. Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

BOSTON, MA – Kids today do not feel adequately prepared to make informed, confident decisions about what they want to do after high school. Research shows that more than 65 percent of students feel they would have benefited from more career exploration in middle and high school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The insight comes from the 2024 AI in Academia Study by Copyleaks. Key findings from the study include: Frequent AI usage Thirty-four percent of educators use AI very frequently to draft or review assignments, showing high adoption among educators. The report offers a comprehensive look at AI’s role in education.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2023

Empowering girls to excel According to a recent Microsoft study , 31 percent of girls in middle school believe that jobs requiring coding and programming are “not for them.” In high school, that number rises to 40 percent.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2015

Middle school students can take online courses for high school credit, and high school students can design their own studies with the help of a faculty advisor. “We For the past five years, the district has had a “no zero” grading policy to encourage the completion of all student work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? According to Brookings , roughly nine percent of educators consider themselves social studies teachers. Here are five ways edtech can kick up your social studies program: Simulations and games.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Attendance and achievement predict students’ probability of graduating high school, which in turn predicts lifetime earnings.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

Thirty-five Jewish Day Schools nationwide are launching the CIJE-Tech MS Program, a new STEM engineering program designed specifically for middle school grades. Self-directed classroom study and hands on interactive curricula culminate in a year-end capstone project applying the STEM principles acquired in both CIJE programs.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

On its face, the cell phone policy at Forest Hills High School seems clear: Phones cannot be used in school and must be turned off during the day, unless a teacher allows them as part of a lesson. Some educators saw an immediate shift once cell phones were allowed in schools. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sora Schools , an online, project-based middle school and high school, along with a wide network of innovators and education experts, collaborated to round up what are the biggest forces shaping education in 2023. AI Will Transform Education Parents want schools to embrace new technology and cultural shifts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

(NYSE: RST) to extend its world language program to military families and adult learners, in addition to supplementing traditional language learning instruction to its middle and high school students and English-language learners. The most common languages studied include Spanish, French, Latin and English.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report entitled “ The Youths Relationships Study ” was conducted by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago and published last fall. Researchers reported that Big Brothers Big Sisters mentees in the study were 54 percent less likely to have been arrested and 41 percent less likely to have engaged in substance use.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23. .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Whitehorne Middle School in Verona, New Jersey. Ecole Dickinsfield School in Alberta, Canada. Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine. Stephen Catholic School in Riverview, Florida. Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Michigan. Tates Creek High School in Lexington, Kentucky.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. This organization provides educators with free textual resources and STEM kits for grades kindergarten through high school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

teachers, school/district leaders, school board leaders, teacher educators, professional development providers, universities and colleges, museums, nonprofits, families) with an emphasis on building relational connections among communities and sharing knowledge.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Research by Education Strategy Group , commissioned by American Student Assistance, refers to the latest reauthorization of the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act (Perkins V), which allows middle school programs as early as fifth grade to receive federal funding for career exploration.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Yet, at the elementary school level, many teachers haven’t had any specialized education or training in science, leaving them at a loss for PD in STEM. In 2014, Hillsborough County Public Schools and Polk County Public Schools received a three-year $4.5

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Skaggs Catholic Center in Utah comprises of a high school, middle school, elementary school, day center and church, all requiring fast, reliable and secure Wi-Fi to keep up with growing device density. “We We decided to embrace BYOD rather than resisting it”, explains Jim Duane, Director of Educational Resources.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2018

An alarmingly high number of students experience trauma at home, and their attitudes towards learning can vary due to these outside factors. In fact, studies show that up to 60 percent of all high school students are “chronically disengaged” from their own learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

22 states (+DC) require a high school class be offered. 17 states (+DC) require a high school class be taken. At the high school level, financial literacy curriculum is often delivered as a separate course within social studies, consumer science, or business.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Effective feedback is vital for several reasons, allowing for students to adopt new study strategies, identify weaknesses, and chart development over time. Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. High school educators should prepare students for college by building these habits.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

One study showed that high school student interest and motivation in physics were significantly boosted with the introduction of probeware to physics classes, and similar trends have been reported in vocational schools as well as elementary and middle school classes.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. Inadequate or unavailable resources.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As part of this new relationship, Discovery Education is supporting the district’s continued transition to modern learning environments by empowering the district’s middle school educators to more deeply engage students in science instruction with its Science Techbook.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

At Marlboro Township (NJ) Public Schools, a K-8 district, we are doing several things to ensure that our students are on a path to college and career readiness before they move on to high school. Moreover, we have the largest number of students in our area who are accepted into highly competitive vocational schools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A 2016 Stanford University study showed that middle school, high school, and college students have difficulty judging the credibility of online information and are frequently duped by fake news, biased sources, and sponsored content.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom. To their AI tools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Whether it’s homework help or a study session, students pair up with their private tutor for a personalized 1-on-1 lesson in the advanced lesson space. Each session is archived, so students can conveniently access past lessons to help them with coursework and studying. square miles in the center of Oklahoma.

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